Zoom isn’t as “encrypted” as you think, tech regulation amidst COVID-19, and economist Gene Sperling on being in a “jobs depression”

Pivot

Vox Media Podcast Network

News Commentary, Tech News, News, Technology

4.2 • 9.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Kara and Scott talk about privacy issues at Zoom as we move our doctor's appointments, work, therapy, social lives and school onto the platform. They discuss how tech regulations may slow under the cloud cover of COVID-19, the future of CCPA and Silicon Valley lobbyists. In Friend of Pivot, we hear from the former Director of the National Economic Council under President's Clinton and Obama, Gene Sperling. He talks about the 6.6 million people who filed for unemployment in March, the current recession and how it differs from the 2008 financial crisis. In wins, Scott attends a "drive by birthday party" and Kara celebrates a Brooklyn landlord cancelling rent. In fails... Scott's former student Jared Kushner talks about the federal stockpile. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, this is Pivot from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:06.5	I'm Cara Swisher.
0:07.6	And I'm Scott Gowie and Cara, our dishwasher, that bitch doesn't know what hit it.
0:12.6	Oh my God, are we abusing the dishwasher?
0:15.5	This thing had not been turned on in two years.
0:19.3	And now it is, it is being asked to work over time.
0:21.9	The dog even, my dogs are sick of me.
0:24.4	My dog's like, Jesus Christ, get out of here already.
0:27.6	I've been sick for you for as long as I met you, but that's okay.
0:30.6	That's no problem.
0:31.4	So you're actually eating at home in other words, correct?
0:34.4	Yeah, a lot of eating at home, a lot of, a lot of, I think about loading the
0:39.7	dishwasher and unloading the dishwasher and occasionally I do it.
0:42.5	But it's just, we also, you know what, we passed the hours playing this game
0:47.3	called, why do you do it that way?
0:49.8	And no one ever wins.
0:51.1	No one ever wins.
0:52.1	There's never a winner.
0:53.2	Why do you do things this way?
0:55.6	But that's from the great Simon Holland.
0:57.2	He's this total dad joke guy on Twitter.
0:59.1	I'm still a lot of material.
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